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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Metacomet was a war chief or sachem of what Indian tribe?
(a) The Mohegan people.
(b) The Wampanoag people.
(c) The Ouachita tribe.
(d) The Mahican people.

2. What was a Native American tribe formerly inhabiting western Massachusetts, especially around the confluence of the Deerfield and Connecticut Rivers in Franklin County?
(a) The Narragansett tribe.
(b) The Mohegan tribe.
(c) The Nipmuc tribe.
(d) The Pocomtuc tribe.

3. According to the author, accounts of King Philip's War that were apocalyptic, with some being sermons, were mostly printed where?
(a) New York.
(b) London and New York.
(c) Boston and Cambridge.
(d) London and Paris.

4. The witnesses who testified against Sassamon's accused killers were Patuckson and who?
(a) Namasket.
(b) Nahauton.
(c) Metacom.
(d) Wampapaquan.

5. When was Increase Mather born?
(a) 1616.
(b) 1639.
(c) 1642.
(d) 1612.

6. King Philip's War began in June of what year?
(a) 1648.
(b) 1675.
(c) 1639.
(d) 1676.

7. What is the name of a group of Algonquian Indians native to Worcester County, Massachusetts?
(a) The Nipmuc tribe.
(b) The Narragansett tribe.
(c) The Pocomtuc tribe.
(d) The Mohegan tribe.

8. In the Great Swamp Fight, it is believed that the militia killed about how many Narragansetts?
(a) 300.
(b) 100.
(c) 56.
(d) 200.

9. In 1600, the population of the Wampanoag numbered approximately how many members?
(a) 15,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 12,000.

10. The colonists considered news distributed by whom to be the least reliable, according to the author in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed?
(a) Boston newspapers.
(b) The Indians.
(c) The English.
(d) Cambridge newspapers.

11. Before Europeans came into contact, most Algonquian settlements lived by what means?
(a) Stealing from other tribes.
(b) Growing massive gardens.
(c) Hunting and fishing.
(d) Growing plantations for cotton.

12. According to the author, the colonists thought the powwaws received their orders from whom?
(a) The Devil.
(b) Jesus.
(c) God.
(d) Mohammad.

13. What is the oldest municipality in New England and one of the oldest in the United States?
(a) Jefferson.
(b) Boston.
(c) Hope Bay.
(d) Plymouth.

14. When was John Eliot born?
(a) 1641.
(b) 1604.
(c) 1612.
(d) 1595.

15. How many accounts of King Philip's War represent several types of writing aimed at different audiences, according to the author in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed?
(a) 21.
(b) 12.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Pequot War begin?

2. When was A Brief History of the War with the Indians in New-England published?

3. Where was Increase Mather born?

4. Where was William Hubbard born?

5. John Sassamon was born circa what year?

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